Simply Delightful & Easy Lima Beans
Recipe: #16786
January 16, 2015
Categories: Side Dishes, Beans, Gluten-Free, Heart Healthy, High Fiber, Low Cholesterol, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegan, Vegetarian, more
"I love lima beans and wanted to make a simple recipe that was tasteful but quick and easy to make. I had made something similar years back but changed it to suit my taste."
Original is 4 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (236.6 g)
- Calories 87.6
- Total Fat - 6.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 1 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 303.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 6.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.1 g
- Sugars - 2.4 g
- Protein - 1.6 g
- Calcium - 39.3 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 9.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place frozen lima beans in a saucepan. Cover with the water.
Step 2
Add garlic, thyme and bay leaf and stir. Bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 - 20 minutes or until tender.
Step 3
Into a sieve that is place over a bowl, pour off broth. Pour approximately 1/2 - 1 cup of broth back into saucepan with lima beans. Shake any garlic or thyme that sticks to sieve back into the lima bean mixture. Discard bay leaf. Stir in salt and pepper to taste. Evenly pour olive oil over all and stir. Check for seasoning and adjust with salt, pepper, olive oil, if necessary. Serve hot.
NOTE: to remove leaves from stem, turn stem upside down and run both index finger and thumb down main stem. This will remove outer stems and leaves. Add outer stems and leaves to dish. Do not chop
Tips
No special items needed.
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